Chen Yuanfu

• Chinese: 陳 元輔 (Chén Yuánfǔ)

Chen Yuanfu was a Qing Dynasty scholar, known for being the master who taught Ryukyuan scholar Tei Junsoku during Junsoku's time in Fuzhou.

Chen was a native of Fujian province.

Upon his return to Ryûkyû, Tei Junsoku brought back copies of Chen's Zhěn shān lóu kè ér shīhuà (枕山楼課児詩話, roughly, "Poetry and Conversations from Pillow Mountain Tower"), and had them published in Kyoto.

References

• Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Taguchi Megumi, "Shiryô shôkai Kishi Akimasa bunko Satsuyû kikô," Shiryôhenshûshitsu kiyô 31 (2006), 238.